The Road Vehicles (Defeat Devices, Fuel Economy and Type-Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

This Statutory Instrument has been made in part in consequence of defects in S.I. 2018/235 and S.I. 2018/236 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.

Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 673

Road Traffic

Environmental Protection

The Road Vehicles (Defeat Devices, Fuel Economy and Type-Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Made

4th June 2018

Laid before Parliament

8th June 2018

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972 (“the 1972 Act”)(1).

The Secretary of State for Transport is a Minister designated (2) for the purposes of section 2(2) of that Act for the regulation of the type, description, construction or equipment of vehicles, and of components of vehicles, and in particular any vehicle type approval scheme and in relation to measures relating to the environment.

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the 1972 Act and it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient for references in these Regulations (and in consequential amendments made by these Regulations) to Directive 2007/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles(3) and to Regulation (EU) No 167/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approval and market surveillance of agricultural and forestry vehicles(4) to be construed as references to versions of that Directive or that Regulation as they may be amended from time to time.

(1)

1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7). Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 and amended by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 and S.I. 2007/1388.

(3)

OJ No. L263, 9.10.2007, p.1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2400 (OJ No. L 349, 29.12.2017, p.1).

(4)

OJ No. L60, 2.3.2013, p.1.